Research Interests: Dr. King is a Hellenist with interests in
Greek history and literature, Greek and Roman historiography, ancient
Macedonia, divination in the ancient world, and the intellectual history
of Alexandria. Her area of specialization is Alexander the Great.

Dr. King is an alumna of the American School of Classical Studies at
Athens, Greece (Regular Member 2001-2002), and a past Research Assistant
at Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. She has
taught classics courses at several universities in the U.S. and Canada.
She came to Grenfell Campus in 2007.

Current Courses:Fall 2014

CLAS 1100
Introduction to Greek CivilizationCLAS 3700
The Ancient World in Film

Winter 2015

CLAS 1051
The Gods in Classical MythologyCLAS/HIST 2035 History of Classical
GreeceCLAS/HIST 3090 Alexander and the Macedonians

"Plutarch, Alexander, and Dream
Divination," in Illinois
Classical StudiesVol. 38: 81-111 2013 "Alexander's Diadoch's and their Destructive Wars," Review
Discussion in The Classical
Journal Vol. 108 No. 2: 362-368
Feb/Mar 2013"Kingship and Other Political Institutions," in
J. Roisman and I. Worthington
(eds), A
Companion to Ancient Macedonia (Blackwell): 373-391 2010Review of D. Roller,
Cleopatra: a biography (Oxford and New York: Oxford
University Press 2010) in Mouseion Series 3 No. 11 Vol. 3:
15-18 2011
Review of W. Heckel and L. Tritle (eds), Alexander the Great: A
New History (Chichester
and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell 2009) in
Classical Journal On-Line
2009Review of K. Cheshire, Alexander the Great
(Cambridge and New York:
Cambridge University Press 2009) in Classical Journal On-Line 2009Review of P. Cartledge,
Alexander the Great: Hunt for a New
Past (Woodstock and NewYork: The
Overlook Press 2004 in The Historian Vol. 67
Issue 4: 789-790
2005

Alexander, National
Archaeological Museum, Athens

Conference Papers:

"The Port at Pella and the Macedonian Fleet,” 110th
Annual Meeting of theClassical Association
of the Middle West and South, Waco TXApril
2014“So
Much Cretan Bull: Mary Renault’s use of Ecphrasis,” Annual Meeting of theClassical Association
of Canada, Halifax NSMay
2011“Alexander, Alexandrian cosmopolitanism, and
Youssef Chahine’s AlexandriaAgain and Forever,”
106th Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of theMiddle West and South,
Oklahoma City OKApril
2010“Macedonian Treason Cases: the question of
authority,” 104th Annual Meeting of theClassical Association
of the Middle West and South, Tucson AZApril
2008“Alexander, Dreams and Court Propaganda,” Annual
Meeting of the Classical Association of Canada, Toronto ONMay
2006“Battle Panic and Blood-letting: Sacrificing to
Phobos at Plutarch Alexander
31.9,”101st Annual Meeting of the
Classical Association of the
Middle West and South, Madison WIApril 2005“Aristander of
Telmessus and Divination in the Alexander Historians,” 135thAnnual Meeting of the
American Philological Association, San Francisco CAJanuary 2004

Zayed University, Abu Dhabi,
UAE

Public Lectures:

"Politics
and the Trojan War Film Trilogy of Michalis Cacoyannis," Ancient
Drama in Film and on the Modern
Stage, a Symposium, Grenfell Campus,Memorial University,Corner Brook, NLMarch 2013“Pella:
a Macedonian Capital,” American
School of Classical Studies at Athens
Alumni Trip to Macedonia and Thrace, Pella, GreeceJune 2011“Dreams and Prophecies,”
Grenfell Campus, Humanities Program Launch andConference, Corner Brook, NLMarch
2011“The Man Who Would Be God: Alexander’s divinity
interpreted in film,”Memorial University, St. John’s, NLFebruary
2011“Executing the High Command: the price of
kingship in ancient Macedonia,”ASpeakers Series
Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Corner BrookMarch
2008“Alexander’s Exiles Decree,”
Trent University,
Peterborough, ONJanuary 2007
“The Power and Prestige of Manteis in Greek Warfare,”
Vanderbilt University,Nashville, TNMarch
2006“Seers, Sacrifices, and Scanning the Skies:
Reading Signs or Reading Minds?”Union College, Schenectady, NYJanuary 2005